User Program

Every year, ARM reports information about its active science users to its funding sponsor, the DOE Office of Science, and to the White House Office of Management and Budget.

To be counted as an active ARM science user in a given year, a registered ARM account holder must do at least one of the following:

• Download data gathered during normal operations or field campaigns for scientific research.
• Visit a site to conduct fieldwork.
• Use ARM’s high-performance computing resources.
• Be a principal or co-investigator on an approved field campaign.

Costs

There is no “fee” for taking advantage of the ARM infrastructure. In lieu of costs, users are expected to give referential credit to ARM in publications, submit related data products, and provide a summary report of the activity. Registration for a free account is required to access data, propose and conduct a field campaign, visit a site, and/or receive email communications from ARM and DOE’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program area. After creating your account, you can log in to update your personal profile and manage your ARM and ASR subscriptions, including monthly newsletters, information on ARM proposal calls, and ASR working group communications.

Field Campaigns

ARM provides the scientific community with the operational and logistical resources to conduct field campaigns that focus on advancing research in support of the ARM mission. Members of the scientific community may submit proposals for conducting campaigns using ARM resources.

The ARM website provides users with a number of valuable resources, including:

• information on the mission, vision, and history of ARM
• facility documents and reports
• up-to-date dictionaries of ARM and atmospheric science terms
• facility background information materials that communicate ARM’s goals and scientific results to the public
• an overview of ARM’s organizational structure and points of contact for leadership, boards, constituent groups, operations, and engineering.

ARM focuses on obtaining continuous measurements—supplemented by field campaigns—and providing data products that promote the advancement of earth system models. In over 30 years, ARM has amassed more than 7 petabytes of freely available data worldwide. Scientists can use ARM’s Data Discovery interface to access and order data from the ARM Data Center.

Scientists are also able to access ARM capabilities, including atmospheric observatories, instruments, modeling, and high-performance computing resources, to help them conduct their research.

Your DOE-funded journal articles must be included in DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) database. Each time you publish a journal article, ARM has a simple form for you to fill out to share your article with DOE ARM and ASR management and with OSTI.

Research Highlights

You are expected to write highlights for each of your DOE-funded journal articles. This is a very important opportunity to summarize your work and describe its impact. Moreover, submitting a research highlight provides more information about your work in a format that can be shared with your colleagues and with DOE management. Highlights are also included in the ARM newsletter to increase your work’s visibility.

ARM has a form for you to submit your research highlight and publication information in one step—this includes ASR and OSTI.

Find Help Quickly

Use our help form to get your ARM-related questions quickly routed to the appropriate ARM personnel for assistance. ARM’s User Experience Committee (UEC) members are happy to answer questions from new and existing users.

Atmospheric Observer Newsletter

ARM’s Atmospheric Observer newsletter includes facility and campaign news, user and staff profiles, data announcements, event notices, research highlights, and recent ARM-related publications.